The New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing was held over the last couple of weekends, and as it was the 40th anniversary of BMW in New Zealand, BMW Museum in Germany sent a few cars over for the event; E30 DTM, M1 Procar and a CSL Batmobile.

These M3's are iconic cars down here in NZ and Australia, and were all built by Frank Gardiner semi on behalf of BMW. They built 5 M3's, plus a 325 development car, and were driven by Jim Richards, Tony Longhurst, Denny Hulme, Peter Brock and pretty much most iconic Australian Touring Car drivers.





The Benson & Hedges car was the last of the E30's ( Evo ) before the teams moved onto the E36 shells, and were the cars to use slide valves. Sound ****ing horny.


The Mobil #56 car is worth about 500k.


E36 Super Tourer


This Sierra was built by Rudi Eggenberger in Switzerland with an unlimited budget from Ford Europe.



This is ridiculously expensive, and sounded sweet.



And a sweet Sport Evo.



I'll post up some videos later.

 

Any pics of the CSLs?

 

No...... I never actually saw it, it either didn't arrive, or it broke or something.

 

Bummer. Well it's all beautiful car porn nonetheless.

 

Here are a few incredibly ropey videos. haha

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Awesome stuff man! I'm loving that Benson & Hedges car. Any more shots of it?

 

I'll check my other camera ( which shat itself ).

Here is the sister car at Bathurst with Tony Longhurst and Johnny Cecotto.

Tony Longhurst BMW M3 1992 Tooheys Top 10 - YouTube

The number 20 car which I took a photo of is the car which Denny Hulme had a heart attack in, at Bathurst, he died later in hospital.


Denny Hulme - The Simplest of Things Can Take Away... - YouTube


Heres the Longhurst car having a huge shunt in New Zealand. Dad was in talks to purchase this car during this weekend..... bastard binned it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcQvywQ3VQM